Bradley Neil Watkins, a 50-year-old man, died on January 13, 2018, in Fairfield, Alabama, after gunfire tore through the America’s Best Inn & Suites on Kelco Place. Accounts published afterward identified him as a Bessemer business owner, and later memorial listings placed his death in Fairfield that same day. The reporting that survives paints a sudden, chaotic scene: Watkins was not described as the aggressor in the violence, but as the man whose life was cut short when bullets reached the p
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